New Thoughts 🧠: Ecology of Generosity
- chloethereserod
- May 23
- 1 min read
At Future of Faith, we are committed to operating within an ecology of generosity—a network of mutual investment, reciprocal trust, and shared abundance.
This ecology is not a metaphor. It is a practical model that reshapes how we think about funding, impact, and participation. In a world increasingly defined by scarcity thinking—hoarding access, paywalls, data capture, and monetized everything—we choose to build a different kind of system.
How the Ecology Works
Every partnership fuels more than its own deliverables.
When an organization hires us to design a listening tool, evaluate a program, or conduct original research, the fees do not disappear into overhead. They get reinvested. They underwrite the creation of free resources—like our Sacred Listening Tools or the Sacred Listening Study—that are accessible to anyone, anywhere. They help us fund and sustain our amazing team that includes ministry practitioners, graduate students, people who have their own non-profits and all kinds of amazing things that make the world a better place. In short, it helps us to say “Yes” to all kinds of things that don’t “make sense” in a traditional P&L...
